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Ethel's Sunday 
School Class 



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MINERVA HUNTER 




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ETHEL'S SUNDAY SCHOOL CLASS 



By 
MINERVA HUNTER 



PRICE 25 CENTS 
Copyright 1922, Eidridge Entertainment House, 



PUBLISHED BY 

ELDRIDGE ENTERTAINMENT HOUSE 

Franklin, Ohio Denver, Colo. 

944 S. Logan St. 



tf£ 






Cast of Characters 



Ethel, president of the girls' class in Addison Avenue 
Sunday School. 

Miss Landis, the deaconess. (Wears deaconess costume.) 

Myrtle, a sick child in the Wesley House community. 

Myrtle's Grandmother. 

Cora, Myrtle's next-door neighbor. 

Sara, a member of a sewing class for younger chlidren, 
at the Wesley House. 

Members of Ethel's Sunday School class: Blanche, Ger- 
trude, Harriet, Dean, Grace and Hester. 

Members of the senior sewing class at the Wesley House : 
Bessie, Annie, Thelma, Viola, Evelyn and 
Frances. 



DEC 30 

CID 63224 



Ethel's Sunday School Class 



PART I. 
The scene is laid in a small class room used by the 
girls of the Addison Avenue Sunday School. The busi- 
ness session is about over when the curtain goes up. 

Ethel — Is there any other business to come before 
the class? (As she speaks she arranges the papers on 
the table before her and shows surprise as she picks up 
a letter.) Here is a letter that I came near forgetting. 
The deaconess of the Wesley House wants two or three 
of us to teach sewing every Saturday morning from nine 
o'clock to eleven. Who will volunteer? 

(The girls look from one to another. It is evident 
they are not interested in going.) 

Ethel— You can't all go, girls. The deaconess wants 
only two or three teachers. There are not enough classes 
for all of you. 

Blanche— (holding out her purse) Take my mon- 
ey, Ethel, but let me have my life. What would I do try- 
ing to teach children anything? As for sewing, I cannot 
put a button on my coat without getting the thread in a 
tangle. The children would have to teach me. 

Gertrude— We all belong to the Young People's 
Missionary Society. We give our dues and pledges reg- 
ularly and some of the money is used for the support of 
the Wesley House and its deaconess. I think we do our 
part in the missionary society without having calls made 
on us as a Sunday school class. 

Hester— I think so, too. I do not think we should 
be asked to work with those people. If we give them our 
money we do our part by them. Let the deaconess teach 
them. 



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Ethel — But the deaconess cannot teach several 
classes. 

Gertrude — Deaconesses get paid for their work. Let 
them do it. 

Harriet — Pay, my dear Gertrude, is it pay you 
want? Are you hunting a job as deaconess? If you are, 
I'll give you a check every week if you will teach and let 
me watch you. It would be a show ! I remember the day 
you tried to teach Lucia to darn her stocking and she 
gathered it into a monstrous pucker. 

Dean — Now, Harriet, you need not make fun of 
Gertrude. Of course, we know you can sew and she 
can't. It's not so much a question of ability as it is a 
question of whether we are going to let this institution 
rob us of our time. The more you do for any charitable 
institution, the more they want you to do. It seems to 
me that when we, as a missionary society, help with the 
equipment and the deaconess and give a box at Christmas 
time, we should not be annoyed when we come together 
as a Sunday school class. 

Grace — And Saturday of all days! In the winter 
we want to have time to get ready to go to the show in 
the afternoon, and in the summer we have our nicest pic- 
nics on that day. 

Blanche — Well, I should say we do ! 

Ethel — Then, no one will go? 

Dean — You have guessed correctly, unless you will 
offer yourself for this noble mission. 

CURTAIN 



PART II. 

Scene — A room in the Wesley House. The deaconess 
is helping the girls of the senior class get their two sew- 
ing machines before the windows. The girls talk as they 
unfold their work.) 

Bessie — Are we going to have a teacher today, Miss 



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Landis? I have done my best to make this skirt hang 
right, and it won't. Annie tried to help me, but she does 
not know any more about it than I do. 

Deaconess — I hope you will have a teacher today. I 
have asked the young women of the Addison Avenue 
Sunday School to send some teachers . If no one comes, 
I will do my best to get away from the other classes long 
enough to help you. 

(Sara runs into the room and pulls Miss Landis to- 
ward the door.) 

Sara — Oh, Miss Landis, do come quick ! Jane Davis 
put the doll dress I made on her doll and there was chew- 
ing gum on it and the dress stuck and Jane is cutting the 
dress oft'. Hurry, Miss Landis, save my doll dress ! 

(Deaconess and Sara hasten from the room.) 

Annie — That is just the way it always happens. 
Miss Landis never does get time to show us how to sew. 
Those kids keep her busy settling their rumpuses. When 
I am grown I am going to help girls learn to sew, even 
if I do get rich all of a sudden, like I dreamed last night. 

Thelma — I would not care to be rich if I could just 
be good like Miss Landis. 

Viola — (looking from window) There's an auto. 
Look at the young lady getting out. I bet she is our 
teacher. She must be rich. Look at that fur coat ! 

Annie — Hope she ain't stuck up. 

Evelyn — Bet she don't know how to sew. 

Frances — Well, she's good to look at, anywa.y 

Bessie — Sh-h-h! She will hear you. 

(The girls get busy with their seiving as the deacon- 
ess and Ethel enter the room.) 

Ethel — I am sorry none of the other girls could 
come, Miss Landis, but it seems that Saturday is a busy 
morning with them. 

Deaconess — I am sorry they could not come, but I 
am very glad you are here. Will you teach the senior 
class this morning? Mrs. Morse, who usually has the 



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class, has been called from the city because of the illness 
of her mother. 

Ethel — I feel flattered. I had expected to teach be- 
ginners. (Turns to the girls and talks as she removes 
her coat and gloves. Several girls rub the coat softhj 
when Ethel is not looking.) 

Ethel — What are you making, girls? 

Annie — Underskirts. Bessie's hikes in the back. 
She wants you to level it off for her. 

Ethel — I shall be glad to. Let me see the skirt, 
Bessie. 

(Bessie brings the skirt and it is spread upon a ta- 
ble. All gather around while Ethel trims it.) 

Ethel — Slip it on over your dress and let us see 
how it hangs. 

(Bessie puts on the skirt and all the girls are in- 
terested, some pat it into place, others stoop to the floor 
to see how it hangs.) 

Thelma — Ain't that grand, now? 

Viola — I tried to make a skirt for my little sister, 
and the more I trimmed it the more it hung in scallops. 
How did you know how to do it? 

Ethel — I learned at school. I make nearly all my 
clothes. 

Frances — (disappointed) You do? Then you are 
not rich. Rich folks hire their clothes made, or buy 
them at the stores. 

Bessie — Do you make your clothes so that you will 
have money for coats and cars? 

Frances — Was that your car you came in today? 

Annie — It must be swell to have a fur coat and a 
car. Have you a beau? 

(This question is of such importance that all crowd 
around to hear Ethel's answer. Her sloivness is under- 
stood to mean that she is without this desirable posses- 
sion. Bessie pats her on the shoulder and says in sooth- 
ing tones.:) 



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Bessie— There, there, don't worry about it. My 
brother's sweetie went back on him. She ran away with 
the ash man last week. My brother would just admire 
to be your steady. 

(Enter Deaconess.) 

Deaconess — Girls, girls, you will smother your 
teacher. Sit down. How is the work getting along? 

Bessie — Fine, Miss Landis. Look at this skirt. It 
hangs just grand! 

Deaconess — (examines work and hands out trim- 
ming for the skirts.) See how neatly you can gather this 
embroidery for a ruffle. 

Annie: — Oh, ain't it pretty! I never had a ruffle on 
a petticoat in my life. Won't ma be proud? 

(A ragged little girl enters the room and stands in 
front of the deaconess.) 

Cora — Miss Landis, there's a little girl lives next 
door to me what's awful sick, and her granny won't let 
nobody do nothing for her no way. Won't you come give 
her some medicine what'll make her well? We plays to- 
gether when she's well. I 'spect she's hungry, too, 'cause 
they ain't ever got much to eat over there. 

Deaconess — Of course I'll go to see her. She lives 
next door to your house, you say? 

Cora — Yes'm, next door to me in Tatter Rag Alley. 
It's an awful house — the tumbledownest one there is. 
You'd better hurry up, 'cause she's awful sick. I'll wait 
till you puts on your bunnit. 

Deaconess — It is time for the sewing school to be 
dismissed. Put your work away neatly, girls. I will 
hurry and get some things to take to the sick child. 

Ethel — May I go with you? 

Deaconess — I shall be glad to have you go. 

CURTAIN 



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PART III. 

Scene — Inside a one-room hut. Myrtle is tossing 
about on a pile of dirty rags. The grandmother, in a 
dirty calico wrapper and ragged shawl is knocking the 
ashes from her cob pipe as she sits huddled over an old 
stove. A few pieces of broken furniture are scattered 
about the room. A knock is heard at the door.) 

Grandmother — (screaming in shrill voice) Come 
on in! You don't have to knock the door down. 

(Enter Deaconess and Ethel.) 

Deaconess — I heard that there is a little sick girl 
here. May I help you do something for her? 

Grandmother — Don't see as how it's any of your 
business to come pryin' into something as ain't none o' 
your business. I ain't goin' ter have none o' your doctors 
an' none o' your medicines. I done give her some herb 
tea; an' if that won't cure her, nothin' will. 

(The Deaconess examines the child while Ethel 
stands by and watches.) 

Deaconess — The child is very ill. She must be 
bathed and dressed in clean clothes and have proper care. 

Grandmother — You ain't goin' ter tetch her 
clothes! She's done sewed up in 'em for the winter, an' 
they ain't goin' ter come off her till spring. An' there 
ain't no sense in washin' her, she ain't used ter it. She'll 
ketch cold if you put water on her. 

Deaconess — These clothes must come off, and the 
child shall be bathed. Bring me a pan of water and some 
soap. 

Grandmother — Ain't got no pan, but a skillet, an' 
they ain't no soap in the house. 

Deaconess — Then bring me some water in the skil- 
let and borrow some soap. (The water is brought in the 
skillet and the old woman hobbles from the room.) 

Ethel — Where will you get a clean gown and sheets 
and how will the poor child get nourishment? 



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Deaconess — I have a clean gown for her and some 
milk. As soon as she is cleaned up and fed I shall have 
her carried to the hospital. I was told just before the 
sewing school started this morning, that the old woman 
is no kin to the child, so we will have to send her to an 
orphanage when she gets well. 

Ethel — How did you happen to have the gown and 
the milk all ready to bring? 

Deaconess — We keep a supply of gowns and sheets 
at the Wesley House for emergencies like this. Our milk 
station gives milk to poor families where there are ba- 
bies or sick people. 

(Myrtle tosses and moans.) 

Ethel — Poor little child! I wish the girls of my 
Sunday School class could be here and see. 

CURTAIN 



PART IV. 

Setting is the same as in Part I. Ethel is in the 
midst of her story ivhen the curtain rises. 

Ethel. — Oh, girls, if you could have seen that poor 
little child as she tossed on those dirty rags! If you 
could have heard that old woman's shrill voice! I never 
can forget that dirty room. The old woman kept the 
child to beg money so that she could buy tobacco to smoke 
in her old cob pipe. But Myrtle is getting better. I saw 
her at the hospital this afternoon and even the few hours 
had helped her. 

Dean — I want to go to see her, Ethel. 

Gertrude — I am going to give the Wesley House 
some sheets and gowns. 

Harriet — Why can't we have an old time sewing 
bee and make a lot of sheets and pillow cases and gowns 
for the Wesley House? 

Blanche: — I'd love to. 



10 Ethel's Sunday School Class 

Grace — All you girls come to my house next Wednes- 
day, and spend the day, and we will sew and sew. Here 
is something toward buying some sheeting and tubing. 
(Puts some money on the table.) 

Hester — I have a lot of change in my pocketbook 
that has been heavy to carry. I want to donate it to this 
fund. (She dumps a lot of change upon the table.) 

Dean — Do they still need teachers for the sewing 
classes? 

Ethel — Three or four. 

Harriet — I cannot go next Saturday, but I can be- 
gin next month and go every week. 

Hester — Is there something I could do? I cannot 
sew. 

Ethel — There is a Little Mothers' club where the 
girls learn to do things that all real mothers need to do 
for their children. The cooking classes are very helpful, 
as many of the children have to prepare their own food 
while their mothers are at work. There are clubs for 
boys and for girls, and the story hour. There is work 
for every girl in this class if she will do it. 

Blanche — I believe we will be interested from now 
on. What about it, girls? 

(A chorus of voices answers as the curtain falls: 
"Yes, yes! We will") 



CURTAIN 



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